Sunday, May 1, 2011

What makes a good feature?

A good feature story is much like a regular news story. However, it is not written like a regular news story. A feature story is a story on something that is of very large importance such as some famous persons death. However the story can also be a story on a very big event like the olympics or perhaps a local event. Good feature stories have a beginning that draws in readers, a transition that might repeat it in the middle and quite often an ending that comes back to the beginning. Feature stories can be told in narrative fashion or by sliding from event to event even though not in chronological order. Writers must make sure to be careful how they transition from beginning to middle and end. This type of story may have more detail in earlier paragraphs than you would see in a hard news story.

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